Word: polls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority of 21 Harvard professors contacted in a Crimson straw poll, yesterday support Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign...
...lead immediately after the Democratic National Convention in July, when his visibility was highest and when Ford was trying to fend off the challenge of Ronald Reagan. Yankelovich gave Carter 48% to Ford's 38% in April, and a 47% to 38% edge in June. The next Yankelovich poll in late August gave Carter 46%, Ford 40%. Gallup and Harris surveys taken at about the same time reflected Carter's inevitable descent from the heights, although both still gave him a substantial lead. All three polls had detected the same, expectable national trend away from Carter and toward...
Soldiering on, Dole has hit 36 states, Mondale 40. They bend the ear of everyone who will listen, undismayed by the fact that a Harris poll released earlier this month showed that many voters did not really know what they stood for-45% in the case of Mondale, 50% in the case of Dole...
Unlike Dole, Mondale is at ease with correspondents. After a long day, he sometimes strolls-in his stocking feet-to the back of his jet to chat with the reporters stowed there. Earlier this month, he walked jauntily down the aisle with a copy of a Harris poll stuck ostentatiously in his dark blue vest. "Poll? What poll?" he asked with elaborate innocence, obviously delighted that the voters surveyed by Harris preferred him over Dole, 48% to 36%. Even in the South, where Mondale's liberal record had been expected to be an albatross, he outrated Dole...
Suddenly, it seemed, the stock market had become a kind of political poll, one that pointed down, down, down -down on Ford's chances of staying in the White House, down on Carter's populist economics, and down, or at least doubtful, on the strength of the nation's economic recovery. As the election approached and investors caught the jitters, the calm but healthy bull market that developed with the onset of recovery last year seemed to have been taken over by the bears. In five days of busy trading last week, the 30 stocks...